Senior Cloud Platform Architect

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Cloud Computing Support Lead to serve as a senior technical expert for enterprise cloud infrastructure hosting mission-critical workloads in a regulated environment. You will design, implement, and operate secure, resilient cloud platforms across major providers, while mentoring engineers on IaC, containerization, and runbooks.

You will lead incident response, problem management, and optimization activities, translating requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8-15 years of relevant experience designing, implementing, and operating complex infrastructure or cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) including deployments of compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience leading incident, problem, and change management for high-visibility services.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage enterprise cloud environments (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
• Translate requirements into scalable cloud architectures and landing zones.
• Implement and maintain IaC and CI/CD pipelines for auditable provisioning and configuration.
• Design and operate monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve reliability.
• Apply cloud security best practices including IAM, segmentation, encryption, and key management.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex cloud incidents across teams.
• Develop standards, diagrams, and recovery procedures for cloud platforms.
• Mentor cloud engineers on automation, platform capabilities, and reliability practices.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Incident management

IaC automation

Containerization

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Cloud Computing Support Lead to serve as a senior technical expert for enterprise cloud infrastructure hosting mission-critical workloads in a regulated environment. You will design, implement, and operate secure, resilient cloud platforms across major providers, while mentoring engineers on IaC, containerization, and runbooks.

You will lead incident response, problem management, and optimization activities, translating requirements